Acting on a tip from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Costa Rican Drug Control Police seized over 700 kilograms of cocaine Thursday and arrested four suspects.
"What pride you must feel, justly so, for this triumph... which in spite of having to do with sports seems to me to transcend that boundary and transform into yet more proof of what a country like Costa Rica can be," Blades wrote.
President Luis Guillermo SolÃs has asked Guy de Teramond, a former minister of science and technology and one of the pioneers of the Internet in Costa Rica, and Alonso Castro, director of the University of Costa Rica’s Informatics Center, to help him draft an official recommendation regarding a proposed new model for pricing mobile Internet usage.
Olger Ulate Ulate, 55, a Costa Rican man arrested in Brazil last week for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old transvestite prostitute, was released with preventive measures the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry confirmed. Brazilian police did not say when Ulate was released.
The two-year attempt to push immigration reform through the U.S. Congress is effectively dead and unlikely to be revived until after President Barack Obama leaves office, numerous lawmakers and advocates on both sides of the issue said this week.
U.S. company Procter & Gamble (P&G) on Wednesday evening opened in Costa Rica a new supply-chain planning center for its entire operation in Latin America, which will employ 500 workers when it reaches full capacity in June 2015.
